Brian Urlacher of the NFL’s Chicago Bears showed yesterday how a gentleman handles being the butt of a politically incorrect joke: he brushed it off and agreed that it was funny. As Chicagobreakingsports.com reports, the All-Pro Bears middle linebacker hadn’t heard about the incident until a friend told him about it. Beck, on his FOX News TV program, had been looking at photographs of a group of celebrities listed by a website as “The Blackest White Folks We Know” (which, incidentally, was not a very flattering group of people, Urlacher notwithstanding, unless you find Rod Blagojevich, Madonna, James Carville, and Bill Clinton to be models of deportment). Upon seeing the bald, bullnecked Urlacher, Beck said, “I think this guy’s a neo-Nazi.” That led to much criticism, as apparently is the case with everything Beck says. Beck duly apologized on his Fox News website: “Anyway, I apologize to anyone who was offended. I just made a neo-Nazi joke based on the short hair and white skin; I don’t actually think he has fascist plans to take over the Earth.” Urlacher would have none of it. “It’s dumb. I think people blew it out of proportion,” he said, according to the Chicagobreakingsports

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